ABSTRACT

Mr. Evans was not one of those supine pastors who, contented with their own immediate security, forbear to warn their flock of the insidious approaches of the wolf. His daughter’s observations determined him to watch Fitzosborne with scrupulous attention; and, if any thing should happen to confirm his doubts, the hazard of being censured for impertinent interference would not deter him from stating to lady Monteith the danger of an intimacy / with a man whose passions were not subjected by the restraints which religion imposes.